SPENCER, Francis Leslie
| Service Number: | 542 |
|---|---|
| Enlisted: | 19 November 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 6th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Barraba, NSW, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Barraba, Tamworth Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grazier |
| Memorials: | Barraba Public School Great War Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Nov 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 542, 6th Light Horse Regiment | |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 542, 6th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suevic embarkation_ship_number: A29 public_note: '' | |
| 21 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 542, 6th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Suevic, Sydney |
Help us honour Francis Leslie Spencer's service by contributing information, stories, and images so that they can be preserved for future generations.
Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
"AN AWFUL SENSATION."
Trooper Spencer, who Is 24 years of age, writing to his mother at "Nangarah," Barraba, relates the following story concerning himself: "One night while I was off duty and was sound asleep in the reserve trench the side of the trench fell in on top of me, completely covering me. It was an awful sensation. ' I could not move a, muscle, and it took two or three men ten minutes to dig me out. When they got me out I could only move the top part of my body; the lower part was useless. They carried me down to the doctor, and I was eventually placed aboard a boat, and brought here to Luna Park Hospital, Egypt."
Click images to start slideshow.